Dutch City Fears Loss of Pornography Archive 61
The Dutch city of Leeuwarden has lost the municipal pornography archive and officials fear it may be gone forever. A spokesman for the city said the collection may have been taken home "accidentally" by an employee or visitor. "We're hoping that someone will say 'Hey, I have that in my attic' and bring it back," he said Thursday. "No questions asked." Leeuwarden shouldn't be too upset. I've found it a good practice to get rid of your porn archive and rebuild every 6 months or so.
Sounds like AnonIB... (Score:2, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Dutch cities have their own porn archives!
Re:Taken by their designated porn buddy? (Score:1)
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samples of their work
Eeeewwwwwww !!!
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A dutch newspaper states "City's are obligated to archive their history. Pornography included."
I'm dutch, didn't know. But beleive its a good thing they archive everything though. Imagine how much wiser we where if they did that from the start. (say ~10.000 years ago)
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She's the Ouroboros who just couldn't quite connect.
The stuff! (Score:5, Funny)
why oh why couldn't they have learned their lesson about backups and data availability with something silly like credit card information!?
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why oh why couldn't they have learned their lesson about backups and data availability with something silly like credit card information!?
In Leeuwarden they don't speak English that well. When they were reading the backup manual, they translated "back up" into "pick up". Anyway, it's not such a stupid thought, as this collection was so big, it fitted in a shoe box. So I think this was an old-school collection, you know, printed on paper and stuff.
here's an idea... (Score:4, Funny)
they can borrow mine!
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!IdleIsPants (Score:5, Funny)
Cloud Computing (Score:5, Funny)
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Taking a page from the major IT thought leaders I have moved my porn to the cloud - all of it is on BitTorrent.
What are you going to do when Bittorrent collapses from The Pirate Bay servers going offline?
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Use cheggit or empornium *cough*
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That's a really unfortunate signature under the current circumstances.
Times have changed (Score:5, Funny)
Krikke said the bulk of the archive had been assembled by a "fanatic" curator at the historical center.
I don't know why, but for some reason the phrase "too much time on his hands" comes to mind...
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There's bound to be too much something on his hands, but I don't think its just time.
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What a wanker!
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In Dutch a krik is a jack and krikke(n) is the verb...
That's not a bad thing (Score:3, Funny)
It's a great thing... An excuse to make a new one!
Wait right there, I'm grabbing my camera and plane tickets!
It's obvious what happened (Score:5, Funny)
Only one? (Score:3, Funny)
Why on earth would you only have ONE copy of something that important...
Maybe it just wasn't very good...
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Everyone kept getting distracted when making backups and for those that succeeded, they were afraid to touch afterwords.
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Ew
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If you've ever been to the Netherlands, you'd know by now that there are almost no taboos in PORN there.
- animals
- feces
- families
- furries
- adult babies
To be precise:
- everything except underage kids
(this was declared illegal because of international pressure in the 1970s or so)
So, just let me say: whatever there was in this collection, most people probably would not want to see it even if they were paid to. Really. Dutch sex shops have open windows and are running advertising and sample videos in TVs view
The British response is predictable (Score:3, Funny)
Sticky Situation (Score:1)
Poor quality porn? (Score:3, Informative)
This brings up something interesting. (Score:2, Redundant)
Pornography has been around for ages, and I mean: since man figured out how to draw stuff. [citation needed]
Where are the records? I, for one, would think that older porn should be preserved. What about the porn flicks from the 50s? what about the really old playboy magazines? There really should be a "world wide foundation for the preservation of Pornography" Some would argue that it's "History" or "Art."
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On one end of the graph, there is stick figures on a wall. At the other end, 2 girls 1 cup.
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Someone record the sociologist's reaction to watching 2 girls 1 cup and post it on youtube....
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I wonder if some of the classic works of art would fall into this category. By today's standards, they are very mild. But for back then, I bet they would qualify.
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You mean like this :
http://marcheo.napolibeniculturali.it/percorso/in-museum/P_RA12 [napolibeniculturali.it]
or this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum [wikipedia.org]
Disappointing. (Score:1)
There's a surprising lack of porn to be found in the article. Really, I go to the trouble of RTFA and what do I get? NOTHING!
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surprising lack of porn to be found in the article
Well duh, they lost it! Check back when they find the porn stash again.
Tiny Tove Lost? (Score:3, Funny)
The humnanity!!!! .exe file will make it viewable.
I have some really crappy copies I could rar and password protect for them. A simple, proprietary
What, are they are afraid of? (Score:1)
That they'll miss out on their own version of the Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox?
I've found it for them! (Score:1)
I have enough (Score:1)
Easily Solved (Score:3, Funny)
Just follow the trail of Kleenex and empty hand lotion bottles.
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The spokesman's name (Score:2, Interesting)
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That's hilarious! In English "Cricket" means you're never getting any!
Oh, no! (Score:1)
Seriously, you know this story is for real because nobody would think to make up something so bizarre.
Idle Scores! (Score:1)
After a long time of being derided as a useless waste of space, Idle finally comes up with a story that slashdotters relate to. There's your key, Samzenpus, more porn!
Next on dateline (Score:1)
They should learn from Linus ... (Score:2)
"Real men don't do backups, they just upload and let the world mirror their data."